Since surfing the net this summer was out of the question I have been diligently trying to make up for lost time. Today I spent some time a NNDB.com only to find out of the passing of the greatness of Pernell Roberts.......... This is so final!!!
Lorne Green, Dan Blocker & Michael Landon all left us behind so long ago. Pernell was the last star from Bonanza left alive. For so many of us Bonanza was a staple of life, westerns on TV were what it was, we grew up on Bonanza. Its really a slap in the face by my own mortality. Another door on my childhood is closed unable to ever be reopened. Im speeding towards 50 at an incredibly high rate of speed. No criticism from the peanut gallery either. I know I have readers older than I and I sympathize with you. I simply feel that my previous 50 lacked.....quality. Responsibility accepted here.
To all I have neglected I apologize. To all I have wronged please forgive.......me and others.
To my wonderful wife Nancy I pledge the next 50 years to be exciting, loving, and filled with contentment.....Gods grace & mercy
Carpe Diem
Friday, September 24, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Guilty
I'm so sorry it's been sooooooooooo long but it's been a CRAZY summer with work!!!!
Lets jump right in to the the world of Obamatics. In a nut, 1 day before health isurance reform kicks in the insurance industry is doing exactly what the Dems promised wouldn't happen and the current administration is acting all surprised surprised surprise!!!! The major players who are faced with either writing policies for all pre 18 children or none at all have elected to write NONE, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH, ZERO,BITE ME policies stating that the already sick kids might cost them to much money. Huh....who da thought???? Not the Dems!!!!!! So the Dems promised free health care for everybody (and folks believed it) and the health industry has guaranteed health insurance for ABSOLUTELY nobody under 18.Hey Gom, Who has my 768 Billion????
Lets jump right in to the the world of Obamatics. In a nut, 1 day before health isurance reform kicks in the insurance industry is doing exactly what the Dems promised wouldn't happen and the current administration is acting all surprised surprised surprise!!!! The major players who are faced with either writing policies for all pre 18 children or none at all have elected to write NONE, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH, ZERO,BITE ME policies stating that the already sick kids might cost them to much money. Huh....who da thought???? Not the Dems!!!!!! So the Dems promised free health care for everybody (and folks believed it) and the health industry has guaranteed health insurance for ABSOLUTELY nobody under 18.Hey Gom, Who has my 768 Billion????
Sunday, July 25, 2010
This makes me nuttttsss!!!!!!
The following is a copy of an article posted on the google news page. I have no issue with the reporter as there seems to be no bais present in the story but the entire subject simply makes me nuts. Please please please please PLEASE read the article then do a simple word search on your computer in the book of Revelation using a internet concordance.
As a culture and specifically as a people group we have rounded a corner that can't be undone. The moral fabric of this country is openly & permanantly stained. There is no turning back anymore. Perhaps I sound like a voice crying in the wilderness...........Also I want to say one more thing that I fully believe is inevetible...there will come a time soon, I believe that it will be during this governmental administration that our government will openly turn its back and condemn Israel for their actions. Beware the day.
With a laying on of hands, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday welcomed into its fold seven openly gay pastors who had until recently been barred from the church’s ministry.
The ceremony at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco was the first of several planned since the denomination took a watershed vote at its convention last year to allow noncelibate gay ministers in committed relationships to serve the church.
“Today the church is speaking with a clear voice,” the Rev. Jeff R. Johnson, one of the seven gay pastors participating in the ceremony, said at a news conference just before it began. “All people are welcome here, all people are invited to help lead this church, and all people are loved unconditionally by God.”
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, known as the E.L.C.A., with 4.6 million members, is now the largest Protestant church in the United States to permit noncelibate gay ministers to serve in the ranks of its clergy — an issue that has caused wrenching divisions for it as well as for many other denominations.
Since the church voted last summer to allow noncelibate gay clergy members to serve, 185 congregations have taken the two consecutive votes required to leave the denomination, said Melissa Ramirez Cooper, a spokeswoman for the church, citing a tally that she said was updated monthly. There are 10,396 congregations nationwide.
The Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ also allow gay ministers. And the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s general assembly voted at its convention earlier this month to do so, though the vote will become church law only if is ratified by a majority of the church’s 173 regional presbyteries. Two smaller Lutheran denominations, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, do not ordain ministers in same-sex relationships.
The seven ministers welcomed at the ceremony on Sunday had already been ordained and have been serving at churches or outreach ministries in the San Francisco Bay Area, but they had not been officially recognized on the clergy roster.
“The effect of them being brought onto our roster is they will now be part of our national database of pastors who are available for service in any of our 10,500 churches,” said Bishop Mark W. Holmerud, who leads the Sierra Pacific Synod, which includes San Francisco. He noted that while some congregations were open to consider hiring openly gay ministers, others were not — and each congregation is free to choose.
The Evangelical Lutherans designed Sunday’s special “rite of reconciliation” to mark the formal inclusion of gay ministers who were ordained in “extraordinary rites” that were not recognized by the church but were conducted by a group called Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries. Three more gay pastors will be welcomed at ceremonies in September and October, two in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and one in Chicago, Ms. Cooper said.
Amalia Vagts, executive director of Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, said, “It’s been a long and hard journey for a lot of people, and it feels like this is a new beginning in the history of the E.L.C.A.”
She said that all together, there were 46 openly gay ministers who had previously been excluded from the church’s clergy roster and would now be accepted.
The change was made possible after the Churchwide Assembly, the Evangelical Lutherans’ chief legislative body, voted at its meeting in 2009 to allow the ordination of noncelibate gay pastors who are in monogamous relationships. The denomination appointed a task force to study the issue in 2001, and spent the next eight years in debate. In the end, the proposal to permit openly gay clergy members won just two-thirds of the votes, the minimum required for passage.
Some who opposed it are now poised to leave. The Rev. Mark Chavez, director of Lutheran CORE, a coalition of theologically conservative Lutheran churches, said his group expected to form a new denomination, the North American Lutheran Church, in August.
He said of the ceremony on Sunday, “It’s just another steady step taken by the E.L.C.A. to move the denomination further and further away from most Lutheran churches around the world and from the whole Christian church, unfortunately.”
Before the ceremony, one of the gay pastors, the Rev. Megan M. Rohrer, said it had been a long journey from her home in South Dakota — where fellow Lutherans regarded her sexuality as a demon to be exorcised — to being finally welcomed as a minister in the Lutheran church.
“It’s an invitation,” she said of the ceremony, “to join us in the pews every single Sunday, where not a single one of these pastors will care if you agree with us or if you think our families are appropriate. We’ll serve you communion, we’ll pray with you and we’ll visit you in the hospital.”
As a culture and specifically as a people group we have rounded a corner that can't be undone. The moral fabric of this country is openly & permanantly stained. There is no turning back anymore. Perhaps I sound like a voice crying in the wilderness...........Also I want to say one more thing that I fully believe is inevetible...there will come a time soon, I believe that it will be during this governmental administration that our government will openly turn its back and condemn Israel for their actions. Beware the day.
With a laying on of hands, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday welcomed into its fold seven openly gay pastors who had until recently been barred from the church’s ministry.
The ceremony at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco was the first of several planned since the denomination took a watershed vote at its convention last year to allow noncelibate gay ministers in committed relationships to serve the church.
“Today the church is speaking with a clear voice,” the Rev. Jeff R. Johnson, one of the seven gay pastors participating in the ceremony, said at a news conference just before it began. “All people are welcome here, all people are invited to help lead this church, and all people are loved unconditionally by God.”
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, known as the E.L.C.A., with 4.6 million members, is now the largest Protestant church in the United States to permit noncelibate gay ministers to serve in the ranks of its clergy — an issue that has caused wrenching divisions for it as well as for many other denominations.
Since the church voted last summer to allow noncelibate gay clergy members to serve, 185 congregations have taken the two consecutive votes required to leave the denomination, said Melissa Ramirez Cooper, a spokeswoman for the church, citing a tally that she said was updated monthly. There are 10,396 congregations nationwide.
The Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ also allow gay ministers. And the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s general assembly voted at its convention earlier this month to do so, though the vote will become church law only if is ratified by a majority of the church’s 173 regional presbyteries. Two smaller Lutheran denominations, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, do not ordain ministers in same-sex relationships.
The seven ministers welcomed at the ceremony on Sunday had already been ordained and have been serving at churches or outreach ministries in the San Francisco Bay Area, but they had not been officially recognized on the clergy roster.
“The effect of them being brought onto our roster is they will now be part of our national database of pastors who are available for service in any of our 10,500 churches,” said Bishop Mark W. Holmerud, who leads the Sierra Pacific Synod, which includes San Francisco. He noted that while some congregations were open to consider hiring openly gay ministers, others were not — and each congregation is free to choose.
The Evangelical Lutherans designed Sunday’s special “rite of reconciliation” to mark the formal inclusion of gay ministers who were ordained in “extraordinary rites” that were not recognized by the church but were conducted by a group called Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries. Three more gay pastors will be welcomed at ceremonies in September and October, two in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and one in Chicago, Ms. Cooper said.
Amalia Vagts, executive director of Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, said, “It’s been a long and hard journey for a lot of people, and it feels like this is a new beginning in the history of the E.L.C.A.”
She said that all together, there were 46 openly gay ministers who had previously been excluded from the church’s clergy roster and would now be accepted.
The change was made possible after the Churchwide Assembly, the Evangelical Lutherans’ chief legislative body, voted at its meeting in 2009 to allow the ordination of noncelibate gay pastors who are in monogamous relationships. The denomination appointed a task force to study the issue in 2001, and spent the next eight years in debate. In the end, the proposal to permit openly gay clergy members won just two-thirds of the votes, the minimum required for passage.
Some who opposed it are now poised to leave. The Rev. Mark Chavez, director of Lutheran CORE, a coalition of theologically conservative Lutheran churches, said his group expected to form a new denomination, the North American Lutheran Church, in August.
He said of the ceremony on Sunday, “It’s just another steady step taken by the E.L.C.A. to move the denomination further and further away from most Lutheran churches around the world and from the whole Christian church, unfortunately.”
Before the ceremony, one of the gay pastors, the Rev. Megan M. Rohrer, said it had been a long journey from her home in South Dakota — where fellow Lutherans regarded her sexuality as a demon to be exorcised — to being finally welcomed as a minister in the Lutheran church.
“It’s an invitation,” she said of the ceremony, “to join us in the pews every single Sunday, where not a single one of these pastors will care if you agree with us or if you think our families are appropriate. We’ll serve you communion, we’ll pray with you and we’ll visit you in the hospital.”
Saturday, July 24, 2010
I got em on the run now!!!
Snake #2 met his demise last week. I have created this massive burn pile out at the farm and I had a feeling that some copperheads were calling it home. I'm always right. After a couple of passes with the lawn mower my suspicion's proved themselves out. As I came by one more time a copperhead about 18" long decided to make a mad dash for the trees. First I did the natural thing and screamed like a little girl. That had him scared right there as he was now expecting me to beat him to death with a hammer after aimlessly emptying my 9mm. With a perfectly good riding mower at my disposal I simply redirected and rode over him. When he raised his head up to strike boy did he get a surprise!!! No hammer here for mister snake. instant snakechum.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Suburban
Is there a "check engine light light" that comes on when my "check engine light" burns out?
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Annie Get Your Gun!!!!!
Well it finally happened. Today we spotted our first snake out at the farm. Eeeewwhhh!!! I hate snaaaakes.... Nancy and I were trimming trees so we could have a area clear to work with the horses near the camp site and thats when it happened. As we were loading some limbs into the trailer she heard our pooch Laz let out a yelp. Thats right, he got bit...right on the face....by a copperhead!!! Poor dog. Dumb as he is he just didn't have enough sense to stay out of the snakes way. He had to stick his nose right down there to get a real good look. Now I now what your thinking. It's just a dogs nature to be curious about something new on the ground but this isn't the case as this snake bit him right where the last copperhead got a hold of him!!! Yup, bit on the face twice. shit he's retarded. At this point let the confusion begin. Totally forgetting I have a 12 guage shot gun in the truck for just such an occasion I ask her to hand me my 9mm pistol. What a CF that turned out to be. Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam......and so on untill the 15 round clip was empty. What the hell am I supposed to to do now? Just so happened this all took place while I was putting up lag bolts in the trees to tie up the horses so I took tha hammer already in my hand and beat that snake to pieces that I had already scared shitless unloading the 9mm all around him. He proly should of just stayed in bed today. I asked Nancy if she was sure Laz was gonna be ok AND if she was sure he wouldn't be anymore retarded from being bit on the face again as his face was now swollen like the michelin man and her answer was no......just no
Sunday, June 27, 2010
It's a Conspiricy!!!!!
I'm telling you its a conspiricy!! Nobody in this town knows what's going on anymore. I've never met a group of people so directionally challenged. It's a just soooo soooo....... it's a mind bogglin thing. Nancy and I are settled in for a quiet Sunday afternoon and there is a knock at the door. Naturally the dogs go nuts so Nancy stepped outside to find a girl, a boy, and a box of groceries. The long and the short of it is that they are here from Brookshires, our local food distribution center intent on a home delivery with my groceries. Since the "Brookshires" logo explained away the "who" Nancy asked the "what & why". "The handi-capped man who lives at 301.....blah blah blah ordered these and we are delivering them responded the glowing young staff at the successful completion of their mission. With the appropriate questions asked and accompanied by my wife"s stunning good looks the delivery staff began to realize that perhaps....just perhaps she is not a handi-capped man and they were at the incorrect location. Just like all the mail in this town. Do you suppose the Brookshires staff could be related to my mail carrier?
PS The "stunning wife" previously referred to in this blog has proofed and approved this message.
PS The "stunning wife" previously referred to in this blog has proofed and approved this message.
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